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The Museum’s Collections document the fate of Holocaust victims, survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others through artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, personal stories, and more. Search below to view digital records and find material that you can access at our library and at the Shapell Center.

Videotape testimony of Nathan F., who was born in approximately 1918 in Kraków, Poland. He recounts his mother's death when he was an infant; his father's remarriage; working in his father's grocery store; playing soccer; his father's death when he was eleven; abandonment by his stepmother; living with his siblings; German invasion in 1939; military draft; serving in Tarnów; arrest by the Soviets; transfer to Rzeszów; brief incarceration in Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡, Kiev, and Kharkiv; deportation to Siberia; slave labor felling trees; release; traveling to Moscow; marriage to a Russian; serving in a Polish division of the Soviet army; capture by Germans; escape; serving as a medic in Jabłonna, Warsaw, and elsewhere; being wounded; traveling to Częstochowa; reunion with his sister in Krakow; his wife and brother joining him from Russia; meeting them in Łódź; opening a store in Kraków; moving to another town; and emigration to the United States in 1958. He notes the death of one sister and her child in Auschwitz. He shows photographs, documents, and war medals.

Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volume I and II of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.